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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Havelock Ellis

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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
Writer
Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
Woman
Inspirational
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Charm
Strength

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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
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All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
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On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.
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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
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